SearchIndexer.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Windows Search Indexer - builds and maintains the Windows Search index for fast file and content searches.
SearchIndexer.exe is the 374th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 22,033 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by services.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System32100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- dbc9ae7be5305467d4fe5498f9b200c3926cc4830f6dce845ea445a8c79b9e1312.43%
- eb89c5dfeef1e14d2abf2e5008766b4308ee3eb6bc5d3799350675549b5fae7110.08%
- 25e58167de5a6cc9d39df187ed3bb347e9f319fe243fc9c05ad990a4fe5712779%
- 36536235526396cc31dd4e2ea07ea67dd47b5b295a1e665ae1a746c5c20c90d25.06%
- 8adf07e9a1511872e185fbe22914c2130c77ae7b2def2fe33da5de319470df0e4.23%
- 4eee519e7191602d2e01225e38775805a0d9e45fc1e391397fcbd3dee7621fb14.01%
- e1bd5d2944c4ddfe7cbf6a5a14d8f06a35598a02a5ad824304f0b7936c410d7f2.91%
- f6ac86cd7dd3988b3fb0417e1fdf9334b5ab131f09b02722e0f125309ee3fb512.53%
- a749d8557d8025e9f60c4016c003a04735ff77860f1e6cd740e772c44f92a1952.23%
- 5e1b13f185fd47e83203860cd75a3fba391b4a8b8eb1618f53c100d721a681072.2%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- wininit.exe100%
Top Parents
- services.exe100%
Top Children
- SearchProtocolHost.exe65.68%
- SearchFilterHost.exe34.32%
- WerFault.exe<0.01%
- wermgr.exe<0.01%
- cacls.exe<0.01%
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